Awards
Each year, the WCSA issues a number of awards to recognize the best new work in the field of Working Class Studies. The review process is organized by the past president of the WCSA and the WCSA awards committee. Below is a list of past recipients.

We look forward to next year's awards and hope you will submit your work for review. We will announce due dates and guidelines this fall.

2008 WCSA Award Winners
Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism
Gabriel Thompson, "Meet the Wealth Gap"
Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
John Marsh, You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
CLR James Award for Best Book
David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
CLR James Award for Best Article
Alan Derickson, "'Asleep and Awake at the Same Time': Sleep Denial among Pullman Porters"
Constance Coiner Dissertation Award
Michele Fazio, Between Mothers and Sons: Narrative Performances of American Identities in Italian-American Literature

2007 WCSA Award Winners
Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism
Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Jim Daniels and Charlee Brodsky, Street
CLR James Award for Best Book or Article
Nicholas de Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space and 'Illegality' in Mexican Chicago
Constance Coiner Dissertation Award
Terry Easton, Temporary Work, Contingent Lives: Race, Immigration, and Transformations of Atlanta's Daily Work, Daily Pay